Why I’m blogging my next book
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m blogging my next book. Every weekday, I post a new installment. It’s all part of my mission to find a writing process that works for me.
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m blogging my next book. Every weekday, I post a new installment. It’s all part of my mission to find a writing process that works for me.
Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a witches, vampires, EMP attacks, aliens, and, of course, plenty of sexy shapeshifters.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Sep. 3, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 11 minutesWhether you are planning to follow my tutorial to create a free but expensive-looking author website, or hire a developer to build one for you, you will need to create some content before you get started. Here’s what you’ll need.
Reading Time: 10 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesWe interviewed best-selling sci-fi author Steven Barnes about how to become a successful writer, and he delivered.
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Reading Time: 13 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a witches, vampires, dystopian futures, and, of course, the usual weekly crop of sexy shapeshifters.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 27, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 10 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an EMP attack, sexy aliens, vampires, a dragon riding school, and a cozy magical mystery.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 20, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 11 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 15 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes environmental catastophers, time travel, sexy shapeshifters and magic powers galore.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 13, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuora is a site where random people post questions and random people answer them. Some of those people are sci-fi and fantasy authors.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDragon Con is the first week of September this year in Atlanta but whether or not you plan to attend the massive multimedia convention you can still vote in the Dragon Awards.
Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 16 minutesWe read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes time travel, werewolves, fairies, a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and a retelling of the Garden of Eden.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Aug. 6, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 12 minutesToday’s modern, professionally-designed author websites have three things in common: Wordpress, responsive design, and panel styling.
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Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 15 minutesI’ve read the first chapters of the top ten free spec fic books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an alien invasion, Captain Hook, space smugglers, sexy shape-shifters, sexy aliens, and a political thriller involving a psychic detective.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 30, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhat do you do if you send out your work for critiques and the overwhelming response is negative?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe finalists for the 2021 World Fantasy Awards have been announced, including Lifetime Achievement recipients Megan Lindholm and Howard Waldrop.
Reading Time: 7 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 16 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a post-apocalyptic western, a sexy shape shifter, a sexy alien, and four epic fantasies. Oh, and a demonic insurance agency.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 23, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutesDeep point of view is a technique that modern writers use to make stories feel more compelling and immediate for the reader. You can use this technique in both first person and third person narration.
Reading Time: 15 minutesHow I, a tech and cybersecurity journalist, backup all my computer systems.
Reading Time: 5 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 18 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes faeries, aliens, zombies, demigods, and an EMP apocalypse.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 16, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesI subscribe to dozens of writing advice sites and lovingly pick the best posts from this previous week for your edification.
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Reading Time: 16 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes the start of a 100-book-plus space opera series, an EMP survival book, a fairytale retold, and a succubus with an insatiable appetite for sex.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 9, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 15 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a leather-wearing armed bounty hunter, vampires, werewolves, witches, mages, and elves. Oh, and an alien planet with telepathic beings.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for July 2, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 11 minutesWhen you want to improve something, you have to measure it. Here is a list of the top ways to measure your daily writing progress.
Reading Time: 18 minutesWe’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes Vampires, witches, sexy dragons, sexy shape shifters, more sexy dragons, and sexy aliens.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 25, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 14 minutesWe’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes aliens, mercenaries, postapocalyptic cowboys, witches, vampires, and dinosaurs.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 18, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 16 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes witches, halflings, grim reapers, and lots of aliens.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 11, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new book by a features erotic stories across a number of genres, including sci-fi, cyberpunk, and fantasy.
New book of sexy stories includes sci-fi, cyberpunk and fantasy Read More »
Reading Time: 13 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes supersoldiers, druids, witches, vampires, sorcerers, mermaids, and an invisible man.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for June 4, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 17 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes alien worlds, shape shifters, witches, and lots and lots of romance.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 28, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 17 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes an alien invasion, post-apocalyptic survival, a werewolf romance, and a paranormal cozy mystery.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 21, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 37 minutesHow to use free and low-cost AI tools to create cool images for websites and social media.
Reading Time: 16 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a gay romance between a vampire and a were-beaver, lots and lots of dragons, and three magical cozy mysteries.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 15, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 26 minutesI try out the top 15 free online mind mapping apps.
Reading Time: 14 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes a shape-shifting dragon, zombies, elves, and vampire assassins.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for May 7, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 8 minutesHow the use the free Miro app to outline your story or novel.
Reading Time: 12 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes aliens, a fairy tale with a big bad wolf, magical mysteries, and a collapse of civilization.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 30, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFantasy & Science Fiction magazine is now in Kindle Unlimited, which means that if you’re a member, you can read this magazine at no additional cost.
Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine is now on Kindle Unlimited Read More »
Reading Time: 13 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes space battles, haunted houses, and a succubus demon with werewolf lovers.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 23, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 11 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes FBI agents who can shape-shift into dragons, a battle to save Earth from an evil AI, vampires, witches, werewolves, wormholes, space pirates and a prison planet.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 16, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutesFinalists for the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced by DisCon III, the 79th World Science Fiction Convention today in a YouTube video.
Reading Time: 11 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes dragons, badass devil hunters, and time-traveling sailing ships.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 9, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 12 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes two magic schools, dragons, space battles, and some very proper Victorian zombies.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Apr. 2, 2021 Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere are a lot of all-you-can-read and free e-book options out there. Learn all about Kindle Unlimited, Prime Reading, OverDrive and Libby, Project Gutenberg, Open Library, Scribd, 24Symbols, and Bookmate. There’s even a service that will send print books to you by mail, BookLender.
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Reading Time: 11 minutesI’ve read the first few chapters of each of the top ten books on Amazon’s fantasy and sci-fi list of free books, and today’s list includes a paranormal investigator, a succubus, and a magic-wielding orphan in a dystopian future.
Free Friday: Today’s top free Amazon sci-fi and fantasy books for Mar. 26, 2021 Read More »